Hook.



PATENTED MAY '2, 1905.

A. W. SPBAGUE.

HOOK.

A'PPLIOATIOIN FILED AUG.14, 1903.

1.....1... H. MMMWUWH UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

7 ARTHUR W. SPRAGrUE, OF LAGRANGE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORTO AMERICAN STEELAND WIRE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEIV JERSEY.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,855, dated May 2,1905.

Application filed August 14, 1903. Serial No. 169.440%.

I To a. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. SPRAGUE, of the city of Lagrange, countyof Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hooks, and refers moreparticularly to a form n of hook adapted to be used in connection with awire-fence stretcher of the type embodied in the patent to E. C. Lott,No. 598,526, dated ebruary 8, 1898, and is designed to take the place ofthe divided clamp illustrated in Fig. 4 of that patent, adetaileddescription of which may be had by reference thereto.

Among the salient objects of the invention are to provide a hook of suchconstruction as may be readily applied to or disengaged from theclamping members used in stretching woven-wire fence and the like and toprovide astrong and rigid hook in which the center of draft will be indirect alinement with the transverse center of the hook.

The invention consists of the matters hereinafter described, and moreparticularly pointed out in the appended claim, and will be readilyunderstood from the description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a tretcherembodying my invention in operation. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thehook, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing bhe application of the hookto the clampingars. Referring to the drawings, 1 designates as M 1.whole the stretcher attached to a post 2 by cans of the holding-chain 3.4: 4 designate he pulling-hooks of the stretcher, shown in )perativeengagement with the pulling-chain which is in turn connected to the hook6Q 7 and 8 are the clamping members, adapted o be clamped together, oneon each side of he wire fence or fabric to be stretched by leans of thebolts 9. The book 6 is then aplied to the clamping members in the manner*hown in Fig. 1 and the device is ready for peration.

The hook which constitutes my invention is composed of the longitudinaland transverse face portions 6 and 6 preferably forming two sides of arectangle, the projecting lip 6, the longitudinal strengthening-rib 6and the inwardly-set arm 6, the end portion of which arm is made forkshape to receive the attaching-link of the chain 5, which is securedtherein by means of the bolt or rivet 10. Said hook is preferably madeof one piece, open on one side, as shown, with the arm 6 of such lengthand so inclined as to bring the attaching-bearing thereof in directalinement longitudinally of-the hook with the center of the engagingface 6".

The inner or engaging face of the hook is made of a size and shape tocorrespond with the transverse dimensions and form of the clamping-barswith which it is to be used, thus fit ting over the clamping-bars in amanner which will hold them snugly together and prevent a twistingmovement of the same when the stretcher is operated.

I claim- An integral or one-piece hook for cooperation with arectangular fence-clamp, comprising a straight longitudinal memberhaving a flat clamp-engaging surface, a straight transverse memberhavinga flat clamp-engaging surface disposed at right angles to saidlongitudinal member and terminating in a lip having a flatclamp-engaging surface opposite to and parallel with said longitudinalmember, aforked inwardly-extending arm constituting a continuation ofsaid longitudinal member terminating in attaching means located inlongitudinal alinement with the center of the transverse member, andareinforcing-rib extending longitudinally of the backs of saidlongitudinal and transverse members, sub stantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day ofAugust, A. D. 1903.

ARTHUR W. SPRAGUE.

Witnesses:

A. F. ALLEN, W. R. LITZENBERG.

